I often use this simple algorithm to select an entry from a sorted list: 1: Select two random entries 2: Discard the one with the lower rank This is u

I often use this simple algorithm to select an entry from a sorted list: 1: Select two random entries 2: Discard the one with the lower rank This is useful in many situations where you want to give a higher chance to entries with a higher rank. Looking around the web for the name of this, the closest I found is tournament selection which seems to be a superset that contains my approach. Is there a name for my specific approach, where you select 2 entries at random and from those select the better one?